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Posted by nprateem 1 day ago

AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion

URL already posted: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

I've got an estimated bill for $1.7 BILLION over this month. Normal usage is < $5.

Obvs have created an urgent AWS support ticket. Anyone else seeing something like this?

Update: Reddit link: https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/1uyuaw7/help_my_bill_s...

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gomid 1 day ago|
Curious if it's just s3 costs or other services as well?
jatin_oo71 1 day ago|
for me it was s3 cost only
cad1 1 day ago||
Go turn off autopay now! For personal accounts anyway
Avicebron 1 day ago||
Nothing like generational debt to kick off a Friday morning
jerf 1 day ago|
This is generational debt for a Kardashev Type III civilization. If there are individuals who are being charged "the whole of the GDP the human race has ever produced", then Amazon is claiming the rest of the world owes them a fairly significant portion of the galaxy if you consider the entire billing claims being made here.

There have been some big billing errors in the past but I wouldn't be surprised this is a new record. I know I've seen people charged around 92 quadrillion, which is a rounding error from underflowing a signed 64-bit integer with pennies, but those stories are usually isolated individuals. It sounds like the aggregate error here may comfortably exceed that. Hard to tell how widespread this is; as a data point my ~$2.00/month spend on S3 seems to still be billing correctly, so it must not be affecting everyone. But a few trillion here and a few trillion there and you get up to those quadrillions pretty quick.

PeterStuer 1 day ago||
Funny how these errors always go one direction.
orbasker 1 day ago||
Yes seeing the same, so far no response from AWS support
realizer 1 day ago||
$627,487,837,871.49

I might be a winner.

bentobean 1 day ago||
Lucky. I’m on the hook for 54 billion (and change).
raffraffraff 1 day ago||
Our S3 bill for a single day was $48 trillion
Arslan1997 1 day ago||
THis is why I hate API/usage pricing
panchtatvam 13 hours ago|
AI doing its "thing". Making billing software work the way it isn't supposed to.
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